Organizers seek a nation of dreamers to honor legacy

7:57 PM,
Jan. 20, 2014

The Rev. Norman D. Blankenship prays during an NAACP event in 2012.

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Keeping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream alive - and inspiring similar dreams in all of us - is the most important legacy he could leave, organizers of this year's King Day events say.

As the nation pauses Monday to recognize the slain civil rights leader, those present-day dreams can range from political goals such as voting rights to economic goals such as the reduction in poverty, to the most intensely personal of goals.

"How many of us are dreaming anymore?" said Verneida Britton of Downtown, a member of the MLK Coalition and a longtime supporter of the National Underground Railroad ...